Valerie Ing
Northern California Program Coordinator | Classical HostValerie Ing’s history with JPR goes back to the stone age, when she volunteered to answer phones during the 1981 fund drive. She was still a teenager when she hosted her first music program on the airwaves, and while getting her degree at SOU, she was JPR’s Student Chief Announcer and the station’s first volunteer in the news room. After graduating, Valerie’s adventures included living on islands in Greece & Alaska, but she came back to the State of Jefferson in 2002 as JPR’s Northern California Program Coordinator. As the sole staffer of the Redding studio where she hosts Siskiyou Music Hall, Valerie is the unofficial foreign ambassador of JPR. Valerie often serves as mistress of ceremonies at the Cascade Theatre, writes a music column for anewscafe.com, and plays second base on the Dirty Dozen co-ed softball team. She used to play bass in a punk rock band, drove a school bus for a few years and can cook Thai food like nobody’s business. Valerie adores her family, which includes husband Eddie, two teenagers and Casper the friendly white Westie.
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UPDATED | Tuesday 5 PMStudents returned to public schools in Weed Tuesday, the first day back since a fire destroyed nearly 150 homes in the city.Weed…
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UPDATE | Friday 09-19 3:30 p.m.Nearly 6,000 firefighters are battling 12 major fires that are burning nearly 250,000 acres across the state of California,…
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Updated: 8:35 a.m. 9-12-14Firefighters have made great progress towards containing a wildfire in Shasta County that quickly spiraled out of control…
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UPDATED 4:08 p.m.A wildfire north of Redding forced new evacuations and a temporary closure of Interstate Five late this morning.First fire reports came…
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UPDATE | Wednesday 12:27 p.m. Mandatory evacuations are still in effect and have been expanded for residents living in the area threatened by the Happy…
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UPDATED | Friday 9/22 10:16 a.m.An evacuation advisory in the Applegate has been lifted by fire officials, who say significant progress has been made…
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UPDATED | Tuesday 1:00 pm Wildfires are still burning throughout Northern California as firefighters continue to prepare for another round of…
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A recent Gallup poll named Redding as America’s third-most miserable city to live in. When nearly 500 residents were asked about their housing, job…
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The Cascade Theatre in Redding is halfway through the two-week run of its annual spring musical. With almost 8,000 tickets sold already, the Wizard of Oz…
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed over a thousand buildings during his long career. Only ten were houses of worship, and one of them was the Pilgrim…
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Remember when the original Mozart Effect study came out in the '90s that claimed exposing babies to classical music (even in the womb) would make them…